Yoshifumi KondÅ Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Yoshifumi KondÅ Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Yoshifumi KondÅ (è¿'è—¤ 喜文, KondÅ Yoshifumi, March 31, 1950 â€"

January 21, 1998) was a Japanese animator who worked for Studio Ghibli

in his last years. He was born in Gosen, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. He

worked as an animation director on Anne of Green Gables, Sherlock

Hound, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday and Princess Mononoke.

KondÅ directed the animated film Whisper of the Heart, and was

expected to become one of the top directors at Studio Ghibli,

alongside Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, and to become their

eventual successor.KondÅ died of aortic dissection â€" alternately

aneurysm â€" in 1998. His death seems to be the main reason for Hayao

Miyazaki's first announcement of retirement in 1998, although Miyazaki

later returned to Studio Ghibli.KondÅ was born in Gosen, Niigata

Prefecture, Japan on March 31, 1950. He entered Niigata Prefectural

Muramatsu High School in April, 1965, where he was a member of the art

club. His senpai was the future manga artist Kimio Yanagisawa. In

April, 1968, he moved to Tokyo after graduating from high school,

where he entered Tokyo Design College's animation department. On

October 1, 1968, he began working at A Production (formerly Shin'ei

DÅ ga), participating in the production of such shows as Kyojin no

Hoshi and Lupin III. Kondo moved to Nippon Animation in June 1978,

participating in the production of such shows as Future Boy Conan and

Anne of Green Gables.In 1978, he co-authored a textbook for beginning

animators titled Animation Book (アニメーション㠮本

AnimÄ"shon no Hon). He moved to Telecom Animation Film on December 16,

1980, where he worked as the character designer for Sherlock Hound. On

March 16, 1985, KondÅ resigned from his position at Telecom Animation

Film, and was hospitalized from June through August for a type of

pneumonia (自然気胸 shizen kikyŠ). He became a contract worker

for Nippon Animation afterwards and moved to Studio Ghibli in January,

1987. In 1995, he made his directorial debut with the film Whisper of

the Heart. On January 21, 1998, he died suddenly of an aortic

dissection in the Tachikawa City Hospital in Tokyo at age 47. Doctors

said that the aneurysm had been brought on by overwork.
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